Personal Promise

Linda Rock
2 hours ago
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We are on the second Introductory Day of the New Year. Yesterday, on our first Introductory Day, we were identified with Personal Prayer. One of the personal confessions and commitments we made to our Loving, Caring and Merciful God was this.

I come and give my life without spare,

For faithful service, Lord me prepare.

Personal Promise

As believers, receiving all this lavish bounty from Father God, we are left no choice but to humble ourselves in service to God. In praying to God, you made a Personal Promise, to give your life, yourself, sparing nothing. This means your unequivocal giving of your life to Him. You went even further to ask the Lord to prepare you for His service.

Many things were stated in that one statement of asking God to prepare you for faithful service. When you prayed, no type of service was specified, meaning that you are willing to accept as God chooses. Faithful service has nothing to do first and foremost with what you enjoy and feel comfortable doing. It does not mean what you are skilled at, or good at.

It does not even mean what you are able to do, or you are unable to do. It means what God has chosen for you, according to His wisdom, what you are to do in His vineyard.

Faithful service, has no stipulations about place or people. You never offered your life to serve God where it was convenient to you and where very little or no sacrifices were required. No! Personal Prayer demanded your complete surrendering to God, to be used as is His choice.

You see, the very prayerful statement made was one of promise. On this second introductory day, you have made a promise to God only because of His fulfilled promise to you. I come and give my life without spare. Prayerfully and with a listening heart, receive this two-part relationship of receiving and responding. I come. You can only come before God, because He Himself has given you life, to come. You can only come before Him because He has first come before you, with His Love, and captured your heart. God made a promise to Abraham, your father of faith and you were in that promise. God has said that He will be your God and He has not ever waned, nor changed His Word on you. Please understand! God’s Word spoken, regardless of how long ago, is still as fresh and new today, as the fresh morning dew.

God’s Word is Immortal, for God is His Word and He is the One Immortal God. When Paul spoke about Jesus, the Word made flesh, God Incarnate, he spoke about Him in this light. He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honour and everlasting power. Amen. 1 Timothy 6: 15b – 16. You come, because God’s Word to you is Immortal.

God’s Word is Immutable, for God is Immutable and He is His Word. For I am the LORD, I do not change. Malachi 3: 6a. You come, because God’s Word to you is Immutable.

God’s Word is Infallible, for God is Infallible and He is His Word. His Word can never ever err, or be found lacking, even in the smallest part thereof. God is not a man that He should lie. Numbers 23: 19a. You come, because God’s Word to you is Infallible.

In this brilliant explosion of God’s ineffable faithfulness to you, how can you not freely give your bountifully blessed and highly favoured life to Him, without spare? Has He not given His priceless Word to you without spare? This Personal Promise, which you have made in Personal Prayer, is nothing of the head, but of the heart, for it is your full heart-response to your God. This is not a promise that you have to work at and make laborious efforts to maintain. God forbid! No! This is the response of a heart that knows a God born in it, in the sweetest, simplest, yet solemnest way.

Spare nothing, withhold nothing, horde nothing, keep nothing away from your God. He kept nothing of Himself away from you, even when you were a most wretched sinner. But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5: 8.